Church Members’ Appearance for Preliminary Hearings

18 September 1838

Several church members appeared for preliminary hearing on charges arising from confrontation with Adam Black, giving bonds for later court appearance; Major General David R. Atchison dispersed anti-Mormon vigilantes, Netherton Springs, Missouri.

Document Containing the Correspondence, Orders, &c., in Relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons; and the Evidence Given before the Hon. Austin A. King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, at the Court-House in Richmond, in a Criminal Court of Inquiry, Begun November 12, 1838, on the Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr., and Others, for High Treason and Other Crimes against the State. Fayette, MO: Boon’s Lick Democrat, 1841.